Indonesia deports French drug smuggler after 18 years


Handout photograph from the Indonesian Immigration Agency taken on July 21, 2018 shows French national Michael Blanc posing for a picture before deportation at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, on the outskirt of Jakarta. – AFP/Immigration Agency Indonesia pic, July 22, 2018. 

A FRENCHMAN who served 18 years in custody for smuggling drugs into Bali was deported today in a case that sparked outrage in his native country over Indonesia’s tough narcotics laws.

Police arrested Michael Blanc on the day after Christmas in 1999 at the tropical island’s airport with 3.8kg of hashish hidden inside scuba diving canisters.


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